Here are several things that stacked up during my very busy week!
* Turkey presents Ottoman Sultan’s letter to Elizabeth I to UK
* Cash boost to restore Tudor dynasty church on Anglesey (This is the church that I’ve blogged about before here and here.)
* Restoration work at Stirling castle on Youtube – and here’s a link to the YouTube channel for Historic Scotland. The project is restoring parts of the castle to their appearance in the 1540s.
* A new website from the UK National Archives: legislation.gov.uk launched last week.
* Giant maze to open in Trafalgar Square – the hedge maze will be in the Square from August 2 to 6.
* And finally – the fourth and final season of The Tudors will be out on DVD in October in the US (I haven’t heard a UK release date yet, but I’ll update when I find out). Here’s a pre-order link through my Amazon affiliate account for anyone so inclined. 🙂
It’s rather comic that the Ottoman letter keeps referring to the “United Kingdom” rather than England. I suspect the Website has a computer program in place that automatically alters “England” to “United Kingdom,” which probably works for most modern news stories but is problematic for historical features.
That amused me too… it’s one of my major pet peeves in history when people mix that up. Regardless, the news bit prompted me to look into a bit and there were more relations between England and the Ottoman Empire at that time than I had previously realized. Pretty cool.